Friday, Feb. 19, 1954
University Daily Kansan
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Soil Conservation Need Told by Rep. Miller
"Our biggest problem, and it is pressing and immediate, is that of soil conservation," Rep. Howard Miller (D.-Kan.) last night told the Young Democrats in the Student Union.
University Gets Gifts from 1,400
Approximately 1,400 persons have contributed $32,849.70 to the Greater University fund with several months of the charter year remaining. Ray Evans, Kansas City, Mo., chairman of the fund advisory board, reported yesterday.
The fund was set up last spring by the KU Endowment association and Alumni association. The gifts received are used to meet needs and furnish services not provided by state appropriations. The pooling of gifts permits more persons to share in the future growth of the University even though their individual contributions may be small.
"The gifts have ranged from $1 to several thousand dollars, but it took every one of them to equal the total we are proud to report to you today," Mr. Evans wrote to Cancellor Franklin D. Murphy.
He added that the large number of donors was considered even more significant to KU's future than the total in dollars.
Chancellor Murphy expressed pleasure at the interim report.
"The loyalty and devotion of o the University's alumni and friends is, as always, unsurpassed," he said. "The University already is receiving many benefits from the gifts sent in, but it is those who have given that are receiving the greatest value from the knowledge that their gifts are actually an investment in the future accomplishments of KU's young men and women students."
Mr. Evans said most of the gifts are unrestricted as to use. By request, funds are channeled to scholarships, loans, housing, research and other needs.
Beeson Gets NLRB Post
Washington — (U,P) — Republicans took command of the National Labor Relations board today for the first time in its 18-year history after the Senate approved a GOP appointee over nearly solid democratic opposition.
Albert C. Beeson, former west coast business executive, moves into the vacant seat on the five-man board that now includes two other Republican appointee and two Democrat holdovers.
The Senate approved Mr. Beeson's nomination by a 45 to 42 vote late yesterday in the closest administration victory in Congress this year. It was also the skiest majority the Senate has given any appointee of President Eisenhower.
15 To Visit St. Louis Museum
15 TO Visit St. Louis Museum Fifteen members of Alpha Rho Gamma, professional jewelry and silversmithing fraternity, will go to Louisville to participate in the Missouri exhibit. The exhibit in the City Art museum consists of weaving, oil and water-color paintings, sculpture, and jewelry displays.
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- "What will our government amount to if there is no soil left to support the people," he asked. Rep. Miller won his seat in Congress for his opposition to the Tuttle Creek dam.
In two generations Kansas has lost the soil it took 2,000 years to develop, he said, adding that enough soil to feed and clothe 135,000 people is destroyed each year.
"Never until 1936 was there a law passed in the legislature to save the soil and the farmer," the congressman said. He said there is an element in the government today that is threatening these laws passed by the Democrats.
He told the group that farmers have always been the hardest working and the poorest paid people in the country and in the world. "The farmers stood by and watched their soil being washed away for 50 years until the Democrats did something about it," he said.
He said it was only until things became so bad, and only until prices became so low, that Kansans decided something had to be done. "They would throw a Republican out of the governor's mansion, yet never out of the legislature, he added.
YWCA Elects Has Conclave
The YWCA election of officers for next year and a conference of YWCA representatives from Kansas colleges are being held today.
Candidates for other officers are Mary Ann Kaaz, business junior, and Elizabeth Wohlgemuth, journalism junior, vice president; Joyce Sejkora. college sophomore, and Norma Fenn, college junior, secretary; Peggy Whitney and Marjorie Wooline, college sophomores, treasurer.
The election is being held from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. Candidates for president are Jann Duchossois and Lucile Janusek, education juniors.
Barbara Mills and Nancy Reich,
college freshmen, district representative;
Eleanor Hawkinson, college freshman, and Betty Cole, college junior, ASC representative, and Mary Dresser, Marianne Anderson, college freshmen, Jeanette Ewy and Patricia Pierson, college sophomores, Student Religious council representatives.
Delegates will register at the Union at 5 p.m. with a banquet following at 6 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Union. The principal speaker will be Mrs. Elizabeth Jones, member of the Council of Social agencies, Kansas City, Mo.
YWCA representatives and sponsors from all Kansas colleges will assemble here today. Plans and preparations for the 1955 Centennial celebration of the YWCA will begin at this time.
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Members of the University of Nebraska YWCA will present a skit and a panel discussion. Announcement of the new officers for the local organization will also be made.
Take Draft Quiz Registrar Says
All students seeking scholastic deferment, and particularly students enrolled in ROTC, are urged by James K. Hitt, registrar, to take the Selective Service College Qualification test this semester. Applications must be postmarked by midnight, March 8.
Although an ROTC student may not need additional deferment now, a score on this test could be very valuable in the future, the registrar said. Col. Justice R. Neale, professor of military science and tactics, added that he had instructed all freshmen in his classes to take the test.
"The Selective Service test is good insurance, but it is the individual's own responsibility to register for it," Mr. Hitt said. The test will not be given to anyone who has previously taken it.
Harriet King, Soprano, To Give Senior Recital
A bulletin of information, an application card, and a mailing envelope may be obtained at the registrar's office.
Ability in this test is not an assurance of automatic deferment, Mr. Hitt explained. The decision to defer a student rests upon local boards.
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Harriet King, mezzo soprano, will give her senior recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Strong auditorium.
The test examines ability to read with understanding, to solve new problems by using general knowledge, and to comprehend and use numerical relationships, according to the bulletin of information.
Miss King's program will include works by Scarlatti, Brahms
and a modern American composer, John Alden Carpenter.
"Chanson Madecasse" a group of folk songs, will have flute and cello accompaniment.
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